So referring to the image Buoy linked, it explains how mare flat/sharp keys of a certain note are there, over varying octaves then?

It tells you how many flats or sharps there are for each scale/key (per octave).

Btw when I say key I mean scale, not an individual key on an instrument. (Confusing? Yeah.)

Now modulation's something else that I don't get. How does it work/What the purpose of it?

Modulating can have many different meanings in music. It depends on the context. Generally it means to change pitch (to transpose). Like if a song is written in E flat, it's based around the E flat scale/key. If you want to play it in D, you need to shift each note halve a tone down.

You can also modulate within a song. In some cheesy pop-songs they repeat the chorus, but they transpose it a few tones upwards. This is for an uplifting effect or something.

On key instruments there often is a modulation wheel. This is to add vibrato, and has nothing to do with the aforementioned definitions.

I think there are more meanings of the word modulation, but those are less common and I don't know all of them.

At 11/26/12 02:17 PM, jpbear wrote:
did anyone get to try the free waves one knob plugin?

My serial code isnt in yet, but ive been really looking for something similar to sausage fattener but more mild

Yeah, when I did it, my serial was emailed to me practically instantly. The Waves Account page was overloading and took me about half an hour before I could access the server. There are posts on the interwebz complaining that their emails with the serials have not arrived yet.

At 11/25/12 11:48 AM, xKore wrote:
would also like to say spacelaces (cornandbeans) is killing it at the moment, collabing with excision, downlink and kj sawka's new project Destroid. hes probably gonna be fairly big soon

congrats on your success.. you've come a long way since I first met you on here. I am still not a fan of the dubstep stuff but people seem to enjoy it so kudos to you.

At 11/27/12 07:43 PM, Blackhole12 wrote:
I never drink caffeine. If I'm sleepy, it means I need to go sleep, not do substandard work.

except that I'm only tired during the day and not at night.

dafuq

I'm sleepy during the day and during the night. Ever since I started sixth form (the American equivalent of college) I've been pretty much permanently sleepy. Not very fun.

I find that listening to music on headphones keeps me awake really well (even though the ENT specialist told me not use headphones because one of me ears is deaf so I should preserve what little hearing I have left). One time I managed to stay up all night to finish my Trigonometry homework, all thanks to listening to mainly Reasoner's and Buoy's music for hours on end.